Psychotherapy
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Symbols in Psychotherapy
This book is a guide to the recognition of symptom formation as it appears during psychotherapy in associations, play, dreaming and future planning. Beyond the ability to recognize symbols and symbol laden fantasies, which determine fates, delusions, and impair planning, it presents clinical examples and psychotherapeutic techniques for correcting pathological regressive symbols. These also are techniques for transmuting the dream content of children into latent content through the use of play imagery.
"This is a useful desktop guide to approaching the role of symbolic forms during the psycho Read On >>
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Freud Teaches Psychotherapy
Both students and experienced mental health professionals will appreciate Dr. Chessick’s skillful exploration and use of Freud’s genius in discovering, practicing, and describing the art and craft of intensive psychotherapy. The “erudition and sensitivity”* that characterize Dr. Chessick’s earlier books are also evident in this new work.
Calling on his training in both psychiatry and philosophy, the author explores Freud’s thought on every aspect of human living, as reflected in his voluminous writings, and examines the philosophical premises and intellectual groping underlying Freud’s Read On >>
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The Self and Therapy
This is a book about our understanding of the self and of narcissism, healthy and pathological, over the course of history. Focusing on modern developments from the philosophical debates of the 17th-century to contemporary psychoanalytical conceptualizations, it has a direct import theoretically for personality theory and philosophical psychology, and practically for counseling, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.
The book is unique in integrating the philosophical, psychological, and psychoanalytic traditions of understanding the self. It tells of the lives and cultural and Read On >>
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Achieving Success With ADHD: Secrets from an Afflicted Professor of Medicine
This book is about how to do it. At least, it’s about how I did it, and I figure if I could do it, anybody can do it. I say that because my case was a really bad one. It was forcing me to pull all-nighters; it was sending me into panics and tailspins; it was gnawing away at my marriage. I say that because I believe, immodestly, I have achieved success. But we need to get one thing straight before we begin. This book is going to describe tricks and tactics, strategies and systems, all based on behavioral modification. I can absolutely testify that behavioral modification works –but it rarely if Read On >>
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Making Love Last: Creating and Maintaining Intimacy in Long-term Relationships
We have long known that physical and emotional intimacy diminish during the course of long-term relationships. This book deals with the questions, “Why romance fades over time?” And “What can we do about it?” Relational psychologists, neuropsychologists, and anthropologists have devoted the last two decades to the study of these questions with never before available research tools. It is now clear that we are genetically predisposed to search out intersubjective intimacy from birth but that cultural systems of child rearing seriously limit our possibilities for rewarding interpersonal re Read On >>
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Overcoming Our Relationship Fears
We are all aware that chronic tension saps our energy and contributes to such modern maladies as high blood pressure and tension headaches, but few of us realize that this is caused by muscle constrictions that started as relationship fears in early childhood and live on in our minds and bodies. Overcoming Our Relationship Fears is a user-friendly roadmap for healing our relationships by dealing with our childhood fear reflexes. It is replete with relationship stories to illustrate each fear and how we individually express them. Dr. Hedges shows how to use our own built-in "Aliveness Monitor" Read On >>
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Theories of Symbolism
A resource for the understanding of the formation and the usefulness of symbols with hidden meanings. The history of symbols is reviewed with the contributions of D'Alviella, Freud, Jung, Werner, Jones, Piaget and Casserer. The process of creation of symbolic forms is studied through poetic symbol use and reports of the creative process. The role off memory and symbolization is of special value to the psychotherapist.
" A study of the origins, production and communicative effectiveness of words and images that convey thoughts, while hiding messages and affects. A Read On >>
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Overcoming Our Relationship Fears: WORKBOOK
Developed to accompany Hedges’ Overcoming Relationship Fears, this workbook contains a general introduction to the seven relationship fears that are a part of normal human development along with a series of exercises for individuals and couples who wish to learn to how to release their Body-Mind-Relationship fear reflexes. An Aliveness Journal is provided for charting the way these fears manifest in relationships and body maps to chart their location in each person’s body.
About the Author: Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private Read On >>
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Individual and Family Therapy: Towards an Integration
Drawing on his experience as a family therapist as well as a psychoanalyst, Dr. Sander includes analysis of dramatic literature while also reviewing and summarizing pertinent psychological theories related to individual and, particularly, family therapy. With literary analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Albee's Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolfe?, and Wilde's Salome, Dr. Sanders helps expand the reader's understanding of the conflicts faced by individuals in relation to the world, the family, and the self. A fabulous resource for understanding the importance of Read On >>
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Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and dance movement therapy deal with the ambiguity and complexity of the supervisory role. They attend to the need to establish open, respectful verbal and non-verbal communication, a trusting relationship, a shared language, and a commitment to examining unconscious conflict in the supervisory encounter as well as the patient-therapist dynamics. They show how the supervisor makes room for the supervisee to express her anxieties without becoming her therapist, thereby providing a model for empathic li Read On >>
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Reading and Therapy: Brush Up Your Shakespeare (and Proust and Hardy)
Reading and Therapy explores the ways that literature can enrich our work as therapists. Reading the greatest writers adds to our understanding of human nature as much as psychological texts do. Dealing with patients bringing up the books they are reading will be addressed. Similar to dream work, understanding their feeling about literature is significant. Other issues such as patients' relationships to reading (trauma based or libidinous isolating or shared) is explored. Transference and countertransference issues in light of reading are also examined. Case studies and clinical ex Read On >>
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Symbols in Culture, Art and Myth
This book is on the external shaping elements in culture and myth that mandate the form and content of symbols. Sarnoff traces external influences that shape symbols. Thus communication is achieved of inner needs to the outer world. The neutrality of covert symbolic forms makes it possible to approach and open the gates to the unconscious. This undoing of symbol formation in the service of identifying and resolving conflict is the work of psychotherapy.
"A pleasant walk through the garden of symbols created by writers, artists and dreamers in their efforts to express and repress t Read On >>
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Supervision and the Making of the Psychoanalyst
Szecsödy is passionate about the need for research in developing aims, goals, methods, and quality control in the highly subjective area of psychoanalytic education. As a result, he speaks with authority about the advanced training needs of supervisors and the optimal conditions for candidates learning to become psychoanalysts. This volume shows how supervision can enhance the difficult task of learning to do psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
About the Author: Associate professor Imre Szecsödy M.D., Ph.D. is a training analyst and supervisor at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society. He has cond Read On >>
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Treating Parents of Troubled Adult Children
There is no more difficult task in psychotherapy than moving the troubled parents of troubled adult children from exclusive focus on those children to introspection, discovery, and owning their piece of the action. Those parents are seldom lacking in self-blame, on the contrary, but it usually takes the form of useless rumination about the past rather than recognition of how their present behavior plays a role in perpetuating their children's difficulties. And in cases where parental attitudes play little or no part in their children's failing struggles there is still much mourning and hopeful Read On >>
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Living with Chronic Depression - A Rehabilitation Approach
There is a glut of books out there dealing with depression, almost all of them relentlessly upbeat. Unfortunately, what they have to offer just doesn't apply to the kind of chronic depression that tortures and won't go away. Living with Chronic Depression: A Rehabilitation Approach addresses precisely this devastating syndrome speaking to those who suffer from it, those who treat them, and those that love them. It may be the first book stating the blunt truth that some depressions constitute a life-changing disability. It goes on to suggest that the acce Read On >>
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Cross-Cultural Encounters: Bridging Worlds of Difference
This book is addressed to everyone who regularly encounters people from other cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, and ability groups. Its special focus, however, is aimed at counselors, therapists, and educators since their daily work so often involves highly personal cross-cultural interactive encounters. The running theme throughout the book is the importance of cultivating an attitude of tentative and curious humility and openness in the face of other cultural orientations. I owe a great debt to the many students, clients, and friends with diverse backgrounds who over t Read On >>
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Childlessness: How Not Having Children Plays Out Over A Lifetime
Childlessness is unique. It addresses a hitherto unmet need–the exploration of the emotional, maturational and interpersonal consequences of not having children–for the millions who either by choice or necessity are childless. There have been a few books that angrily assert the right to decide against parenthood, a right affirmed by Childessness, but no book that looks at the profound, ineluctable effects of that decision over a lifetime. Not having children is no less consequential than having them. Childlessness, uses the lifespan developmental theory of the great psychologist Erik Erikson a Read On >>
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Finding the Cow Within: Using Fantasy to Enrich Your Life
Finding the Cow Within is a funny book about a serious topic. Far too many of us, therapists included, are what Columbia University sociologist C. Wright Mills calls “crackpot realists,” unable to transcend our tunnel vision of the here-and-now to see the what-could-be. We are so reality bound that we can’t even envision the “merely possible.” Although Mills was speaking of the political, rigid adherence to one-dimensional thinking, it is no less impoverishing on the personal level. And in psychotherapy, that same mental set, whether of the patient or of the therapist or, God forbid, of both, Read On >>
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The Relationship in Psychotherapy and Supervision
The sea-change in our understanding of neurobiology, infant research, and interpersonal/relational psychology over the past two decades makes clear that we are first and foremost a relational species. This finding has massive implications for the relational processes involved in teaching and supervising psychotherapy. Clinical theory and technique can be taught didactically. But relationship can only be learned through careful attention to the supervisory encounter itself. This advanced text surveys the psychodynamic and relational processes involved in psychotherapy and supervision.
About th Read On >>
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Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterological Personality Organization
Many clinicians dread working with individuals diagnosed as borderline, bipolar, schizophrenic, psychotic, and character disordered. Often labeled as "high risk" or "difficult", these relational problems and their interpersonal manifestations frequently require long and intense transformative therapy. In this book Dr. Hedges explains how to address the nature of personality organization in order to flow with—and eventually to enjoy—working at early developmental levels. Dr. Hedges speaks to the client's engagement/disengagement needs, using a relational process-oriented approach, so the therap Read On >>
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Coming Soon
Click on the titles for more information about our upcoming projects.Confrontation in Psychotherapy edited by Gerald Adler M.D. & Paul Graves Myerson M.D.
Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice by Richard Chessick M.D., Ph.D.
Relational Interventions by Lawrence Hedges Ph.D.
The Companioning Model in Grief Counseling by Alice Kaplan M.S.W.
Exploring Psychiatry in Elders by Paul Kettl M.D.
The Psychoanalytic Maternal Cameo of Terrorism: Boston, Moscow, and Beslan by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin Ph.D.
The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple by Joan Lachkar Ph.D.
Therapy and Life by Jerome Levin Ph.D.
Beyond Freud: A Study of Modern Psychoanalytic Theorists by Joseph Reppen Ph.D.
Relentless Hope by Martha Stark M.D.
From Defense to Adaptation by Martha Stark M.D.
Introjective Identification by Martha Stark M.D.
Six Steps in the Treatment of the Borderline Patient by Vamik Volkan M.D.